I'm getting to know the culture and doing a lot of listening, ... I'm here to become part of the organization.

no one could say we were doing this because we feared competing against Intel.

Dad's big watchword was flexibility . . . so much stuff happens (in school and in life) you have to be ready and flexible,

You can't ignore things like that, ... We've got a culture here that has depended on an educational level that is not appropriate for the times we're living in.

I've made rock records, classical records, jazz records, dub records. It always surprises me that people's own listening taste ranges from pop to hip-hop to jazz to rock, but if you're a musician who's been successful in one style, people won't let you have broader musical interests. It's ridiculous, really.

Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad — ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor, ... While the court can't make me active in radio, I am asking it to make me radioactive to advertisers.